2018 September 8

Anti-Corruption Daily

Anti-Corruption Sep/8/2018: 🔥🔥🔥 Former Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan is indicted on two charges for abuse of power and illegal business activities 🔥🔥🔥
by ar_david_hh

Disclaimer: All the accused are innocent until proven guilty by the court of law, even if they may sound as being guilty. Currency in Armenian Drams ֏ unless specified otherwise.

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Good Saturday! Dani California - by Garik & Aram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xtpf9FcMbw

GARIK MARTIROSYAN is goofing with Lav Yereko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lxl97zI2Pk

Former Prime Minister Hovik “60-40” Abrahamyan in indicted on two charges: abuse of power and participating in an illegal business activities. His passport has been confiscated and he’s told not to leave the country. The charges are around the Avazahatik mining factory case we learned about earlier. Abrahamyan is accused of creating illegal barriers for a company and extorting 60% company shares from the owner. Abrahamyan denies the claims https://news.am/arm/news/470035.html

OEK party will not cooperate with Rob Kocharyan https://armlur.am/837513/

A group of US-ARM diaspora donors have donated $20mln worth hi-tech medical products to hospitals https://youtu.be/wnutALLTzFI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdWoo2i_OQ

President Armen Sarkissian signs the newly passed election fraud bill into law https://news.am/arm/news/470009.html

...he will open the presidential palace’s backyard for public every Sunday. The visitors can enjoy the garden https://armenpress.am/arm/news/946481/

Pashinyan met with Russian-Armenian businessmen during his Moscow trip. Reminded that there are no longer any artificial barriers to do business in the country https://armenpress.am/arm/news/946530/

... while speaking with the investors, he criticized the former government for filling the government positions with low-level street thugs who helped them rig elections. Repeats that the government apparatus is too big and there should be reforms to help the public to get jobs instead of social security handouts. https://news.am/arm/news/470078.html

... says they’ve discovered cases where government-funded organization employees earn AMD 6mln a month for doing very little -- things that a ministry could have done for less. Those organizations will be defunded. “Why should certain managers of these companies move around with padavat and make millions at the expense of the budget, while the pensioners receive hundreds of times less”, says Pashinyan. Calls out North-South project managers for improper management. https://news.am/arm/news/470085.html

Pashinyan met with Putin. He then called out certain Russian and Armenian media outlets for writing sensationalized stories about problems between the countries. In recent times, HHK has also attempted to portray a picture that HHK is the only party that can have strong alliance with Russia. https://armenpress.am/arm/news/946527/

....Putin’s says the relations are improving in all areas, and hopes to increase trade by more that 30% by the end of the year https://armlur.am/837678/

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Link to original report and comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/9e6xsw/anticorruption_sep82018_former_prime_minister/